Anyone have a honeypot in Nashville or Memphis that I might be able to score a hard to find bottle or two this weekend?

Promised the love of my life I would cut back on buying for awhile, and want to spend more time pampering her than hunting........



Oh, bbq dry rub style will be on the hunt menu as well........



Any help would be most appreciated.

We had to cancel our planned vacation due to health issues, so were keeping it closer to home.
Taking her to a Preds game and plan on hitting a few bbq joints between Nashville and Memphis.
Dont think she's up to our normal Easter egg hunting routine, yet.

If you ever do,  I would love to meet y'all for dinner or something.  But I also completely understand if you just want "together" time.  That's hard to come by, and worth protecting.

I'd be happy to tell you where stores are, (even tastings) and all about the good restaurants.  (We have a culinary school here now, and it's been cranking out chefs for a few years, so food in Bowling Green has improved significantly.)

@Hank

Question about good places to score decent alcohol at decent prices in Memphis area.

Don't know if this is your wheelhouse or not.  I know (or thought I knew) that you used to like craft beers.  (Could be remembering wrong, though.)

I'm totally down for that at some point, kitties.

This is her first trip since the hospital and we just have the weekend, so I was trying to keep it simple, and sort of close.
I usually hit every shop in town while travelling, but not this trip.

I hope to do a trail trip again this year, I'll let you know if we can make it.

What kind of hard to find bottles you looking for? Bourbon?

Yessir.
I should have been more specific.
Bourbon, rye......all the nice things.
Haven't developed a Scotch addiction quite yet.

Nope, not wrong. That said, I haven’t gotten into hunting whiskeys so I couldn’t tell you where the deals and rarities are, exactly. Busters has the selection, Docs has some nice stuff plus Whiskey Wednesdays.

I haven’t been there yet but Busters has been recommended to me for store picks and stuff that’s hard for me to find. Store pick Weller 107 specifically. And if they have Weller 107 they should have just about anything from Buffalo Trace, short of btac and pappy. They should also have some of the harder to find ryes.

I have been to Busters a couple of times in Memphis, talked the manager down from a bottle of 12 to a 107 that wasn't spoken for on my last visit.
All the 12 was slated for regulars.

Might hit Busters again if she's up to it.

We're staying on Broadway in Nashville, interestingly location.......preds game at 7
Days open.

No sir,
More recent release allocated or simply difficult to find items.
Thank you, however, I appreciate the offer.
I found a couple Old Forester 1910 and some Eh Taylor Rye at msrp, so if I don't find anything else I'm happy.

Preds game went into overtime with 8 rounds of shootout......

Is OF1910 a hard one for you to find?

If so we may have to do some horse trading in the future. If nothing has changed, I can get it by the pallet (for MSRP) 20 minutes from me.

At least I think its MSRP.

Lol, everything's hard to find here.
Almost every allocated bottle goes to business accounts from the state run stores here, except for one day a year and it's basically black Friday craziness.

Did manage a Willet family reserve 4 year rye today the guy at Busters bought out from the back after chatting for a bit.

They had Weller SR in back too, along with cases of BT, but I have some and left it all for other folks.

Ate lunch at Elwood's Shack in Memphis, very impressed.

Leave your expectations at the door, looks like a dive, but food rocks.
Ordered the Shaq Attack sampler, HUGE portion, we took home half of it.
Commented on a mufaletta the girl brought out and she winks at me, and drops a free one off at the table a few minutes later.
Barely made it home......

Great folks.

1-The best burger I've ever eaten in my WHOLE life is at White Squirrel Brewery on Broadway.  It's not a quiet little spot, and is more of a beatnik atmosphere, but OMG, this chef bakes whole apples in some kind of seasoning, slices them, then puts them on the burger, loads it up with bacon and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember. Apples!  Who would think?

It's the BEST THING I HAVE EVER EATEN. I mean in my WHOLE LIFE.

I don't afford it very often, but it's amazing.

All the food there is really good (that I've had) and if you like beer, get a flight. I haven't tasted anything they brew that is bad.

Lemme think on it. Maybe another place I would recommend.

ETA:

2-We have one decent little mom and pop Thai place, if you like Thai food.   Really sweet couple from Myanmar.  Week to week I'm not sure their place will stay open, and I hope it makes it, because previously, for Thai, we had only one overpriced Thai place that would rip off your credit card number, or crap places like Panda Express, which doesn't do anything worth eating.

So this Thai place...it's a little hole-in-the-wall spot down by WKU, literally across the tracks from the stadium.  It's called Zogam Khai.

I love the Pad Thai. Uxb likes their Drunken Noodle.  They have a lot of stuff we haven't tried.  They are the kind of place a "real" Thai eater could go in and ask for something and they would make it.  The guy wears a chef's coat, and I think he probably got it honest.

This is not a scene of any kind.  Not fancy by any stretch.  We're talking painted paneling. But the food is good, and for $20, two people can eat themselves sick.

#3-If you want Sushi--Yuki is the best place in town. Most expensive, too, but Joe is the real deal. (No, Joe is not his real name.) Probably the only honest-to-Pete FULLY TRAINED sushi chef in Bowling Green.  Everybody else in town is Vietnamese with varied levels of training, some questionable.

So you'll spend $60 if you like sushi. (I can eat my freaking WEIGHT plus some, in sushi if it's any good.)

Ichiban is where we normally go if we eat sushi. It's good. It's near WKU. It's cheaper. The sushi chefs there are Vietnamese.  Nice guys. We sit at the sushi bar.  We bring them honey for "medicine" every now and then, and every now and then they hand us a plate of something unrecognizable that we did not order. We eat it, cuz we know better than to ask what's in Asian food. It's always good. That place has had its ups and downs, but recently it's been on an "up".  We can eat there for $30-ish and both get full.  No, it's not AWESOME sushi, but it's pretty damn good for a landlocked town in Southern Kentucky where they have to either fly in the fish or use flash-frozen, and where you can eat for $30.  We still don't do that too often cuz....I'm bootstrapping a business, we're restoring an olde house, and we have way to damn many animals to feed.

Still thinking.....

Gets a little rowdy down there on Preds nights.

Sounds like a great weekend overall.

You have no idea.......well, maybe you do.



Preds game, + Mardi Gras, + some concert......

It was a madhouse.

But fun.

Happy wife happy life......

Decent bring backs.

Yup, I used to run events for the music industry, and scheduled shows in venues all over town during festivals.  I learned the hard way not to schedule songwriter shows (read this as shows where the audience is supposed to actually be quiet and listen to the artfully crafted lyrics of the hit song, as sung by the songwriter) downtown anywhere near the arena when the Preds were playing.  
Those fans don't give no stinkin' sh*ts about lyrics or sensitivity after the game.  They just wanna get rowdy and have fun!

Looks like a weekend well spent! I hope it was low-stress and rejuvenating for both of you. Especially for her.

Elwood’s is awesome. And if you paid close attention, you saw my company’s sticker on the door.

Preds fans are the best.

I do not disagree.